It's just that quite a bit of people here stick to safe and dull colors for their images

It's a personal choice. Some people choose to up the saturation on their horrible pictures so that it 'looks great', while the picture itself is actually pretty bad.
They reason most people, including me, shoot black and white is because you focus more on the subjects in your pictures instead of colors and other shit which could detract from the subject.
When I started out with photograhpy, I shot a lot of pictures with lots of saturation because it would grab your attention. While it does that, it doesn't make the picture good.

It's a personal choice. Some people choose to up the saturation on their horrible pictures so that it 'looks great', while the picture itself is actually pretty bad.
They reason most people, including me, shoot black and white is because you focus more on the subjects in your pictures instead of colors and other shit which could detract from the subject.
When I started out with photograhpy, I shot a lot of pictures with lots of saturation because it would grab your attention. While it does that, it doesn't make the picture good.

I think just as many people use black and white for the reason that you describe. It's commonly used as a cheap gimmick to make otherwise boring photos look ~deep~

I'm pretty much clueless when it comes to photography, but I like to hike a lot so I figured I'd give a shot to photo shooting some of the sights.
These are far from very creative or impressive, but I'd really appreciate it if you could tell me what should I do to improve these!(Or point me in the right direction for some good learning resources)

took it in my school's basement, some locked off (usually) room that used to be used by students to make yearbook stuff and flyers. there are some pretty old messages all over the walls, even one from kato kaelin